Functional and Structural Details about the Fabella: What the Important Stabilizer Looks Like in the Central European Population

Figure 6

Fusion of magnified histological sections (1000 µm; Toluidine blue staining). a: gastrocnemius tendon; b: femoral articular cartilage; c: medullary cavity of fabella; d: trabecular bone; e: mineralized fibrocartilage; f: osteocytes; g: tidemark; h: unmineralized fibrocartilage; i: collagen fibres of the fabellofibular ligament; k: muscle cells with nuclei; l: fibrocyte.